Phil Knight Quotes
The trouble in America is not that we are making too many mistakes, but that we are making too few.
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We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
Warren Weaver
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Progress, real progress, makes me cry harder than anything. When the world itself grows.
Kate McKinnon
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It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.
Earl Warren
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Summer is a promissory note signed in June, its long days spent and gone before you know it, and due to be repaid next January.
Hal Borland
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I just sing what I feel in my heart. I ain't trying to prove nothing, and I don't think I ever did.
Aaron Neville
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I kind of realize that I have a tendency to choose the kind of films I watched when I was a kid and would go home and pretend with my friends that we were in those movies after we saw them.
Samuel L. Jackson
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San Francisco, coolest place ever.
Imogen Poots
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Have you read 'The Grapes of Wrath?' That was my family. My dad was a sharecropper in western Oklahoma. When the dust storms came and everything got wiped out, they came to California. The guys with the mattresses on the tops of their cars in the movie? That was the way it was.
B. Wayne Hughes
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Anytime I'm involved with anything that's well-received, it's a surprise to me.
Larry David
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Never eat spinach just before going on the air.
Dan Rather
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Writers have to be very careful and discerning because so much of the machine is out of their control.
Tamsin Greig
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Children must be considered in a divorce considered valuable pawns in the nasty legal and financial contest that is about to ensue.
P. J. O'Rourke
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So I saw many planets, and they looked just a little bit brighter than they do from Earth.
Sally Ride
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No one person is an island.
Yehuda Berg
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All you can do is focus on telling the best story you can with compelling characters. If you do it right, it will endure. If you do it wrong, it won't.
J. Michael Straczynski
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I do my best work if I think about what it is I have to offer.
Barbara Kingsolver
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I took a job at a white-shoe NYC law firm, with an office, business cards, and a fat starter paycheck.
Rachel Sklar
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Before I begin talking about the threats we face, the vulnerabilities that we have, and frankly the courage of the men and women in uniform that stand in harm's way on behalf of a very grateful Nation, let me first honor the sacrifices of September 11.
Zach Wamp
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Being in the presence of the "other" seems to show me who I am in a way that is really important to me. I feel radically more comfortable in Laos, say, than I do in Pennsylvania.
Pam Houston
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If there is anything in the universe that can't stand discussion, let it crack.
Wendell Phillips
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I'm associated with gospel music in the minds of millions of people.
Pat Boone
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What do I know of man's destiny? I could tell you more about radishes.
Samuel Beckett
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We need people to be able to come down here and start really enjoying football games at Arnett Gardens.
J. M. Roberts
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The trouble in America is not that we are making too many mistakes, but that we are making too few.
Phil Knight